I just got a mailing from Cambridge. The reprint of Barnard's "Photographic Atlas of Selected Regions of the Milky Way" is on sale for 20% off ($100). I'm going to order one tomorrow. I'll never have the dough for an original, and this is the best price I've seen for the reprint.

I suspect this book will have a limited run, and will then be outrageously expensive on the used market.

That's certainly possible, but then, CUP has a reputation for keeping titles of academic interest on their lists for a respectable amount of time. They also can go well over a year between releasing a hardcover edition and then following up with a softcover - if they issue a softcover edition at all.

Rick,I ordered mine on amazon in July! I have been waiting for this to come out It was available in PDF formatt from a college Library ( Georgia State?) awhile ago Just google it .I can hardly wait till Jan, 4 2011 , First Sky and Tel goes digital with there library DVD now this , I think that we Live in Great Amature Astronomical Times!

I placed my order with Amazon a while back and just this past week I received a shipping update indicating that the book would be released in mid-January, about a month earlier than the mid-February date I had been previously given.